Yesterday afternoon, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman Tweeted about an issues that some T-Mobile customers are experiencing on iPhones. Specifically, some lines activated with eSIM were suddenly deactivated from iMessage and FaceTime with no way to re-activate the line with Apple’s core communication services.

Catan, the granddaddy of the board game boom, hasn’t merely been around long enough to have a whole spread of spinoffs and expansions — it’s been around long enough for those spinoffs to be rebooted too. Out this fall, Catan: Dawn of Humankind is a forthcoming stand-alone game that takes a classic stand-alone game based on Catan and brings it under the Catan brand, reintroducing fans of the strategy game to a more prehistoric take on the franchise.

Ditto is trolling everyone in the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG). If you aren’t familiar with the Pokémon, it’s literally a one-trick pony: All it can do is mimic and transform into other Pokémon. In a nod to its powers, there is a new card that you can peel the top layer off of to reveal that Ditto had “transformed” into it. But now, the new peel-off card for Ditto has thrown the community into chaos, as collectors and fans hash out what would actually be the best way to collect the card.

The weekly Exotic item merchant, Xur, hangs out in random locations around the world of Destiny. In Destiny 2, he can appear all over the map, as well as inside the Tower. This week, you can find Xur in on Nessus, standing on a big tree overlooking the Watcher’s Grave.

Pokemon Legends: Arceus made catching Pokemon more immersive, with an open world designed for sneaking and throwing Poke Balls. Players could now watch Mr. Mime make little gestures while sitting in a meadow or see a bashful Teddiursa skittering away. Wild Pokemon can also be seen approaching players, which makes the game more frightening for those who aren’t used being approached. In Arceus, encountering massive Alphas became a singularly terrifying experience.

According to Ming-Chi Kuo, reliable supply chain analyst, Apple is preparing to launch the new HomePod smart speaker. Apple currently sells the $99 HomePod mini as the only model. The original HomePod with much more impressive sound was discontinued last year after a price cut from $349 to $299.

League of Legends has a new monster. Bel’Veth, a deceptive new Void creature, has been revealed as the game’s latest champion. Riot has released a new trailer to tease the champion’s arrival.

This is officially when I focus my attention on what’s going to be revealed at WWDC June. Rumours are always rampant at this time of the year. I don’t think Apple will spend much time during their keynote showing HomeKit improvements. So let’s dive into what’s on my iOS 16 HomeKit wishlist.

Display analyst Ross Young today tweeted that his latest supply chain analysis indicates that the rumored 27-inch external display with mini-LED has been delayed until October. It was previously expected to arrive by June.

To the surprise of no one, Obi-Wan Kenobi is the latest character crossover in Fortnite, joining the battle royale on May 26. This is just a day before Disney Plus’s wise, old Jedi series debuts.

This follow-up report focuses on the difficulties Apple faced in developing its mixed reality headset. The Information confirms details that Bloomberg has provided in recent years. But it also digs deeper into the problems the project has faced from Jony Ive to the wearable’s power, battery, heat, cost, and even an alleged lack of discipline from the AR/VR team.

Norman Reedus, the actor who plays Sam Bridges in Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding, says he’s currently making a follow-up to that game in a new interview. Speaking with Leo, a men’s style publication, Reedus said, “We just started the second one,” when discussing his work on the original Death Stranding.

It’s not unusual to hear Tony Fadell talk iPod, but a 20-minute video provides a new perspective as it’s illustrated by CT scans of three different iPod models.

You know those movies with people talking into headsets? Maybe it’s a heist film and someone’s crawling through an air duct, or it’s a science fiction film and a lonely astronaut is hurtling toward their doom. Whatever the context, that’s the vibe that game designer Tim Hutchings is trying to recreate with his latest project, Apollo 47 Technical Handbook, a one-page tabletop role-playing game with 1,199 additional pages of largely superfluous flavor text. It’s … a bold choice, to say the least.